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^ He directed stuff that wasn’t there, until it was put in by 100s of guys from a computer.
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Bang! Right down the middle.
Here’s Snyder directing:
“I want you, Gerard, to stand over here by the imaginary rock, just imagine it’s there, okay? Use your imagination and just IMAGINE it’s there? Like the rock isn’t actually there, man, I know it blows, bro but just…you know pretend, okay? See the rock. Be the rock if you have to. Now, you’re standing there and imagine the imaginary monster with imaginary shit all over it running at you and you’re scared out of your mind, man, so you dive out of the way and behind the imaginary rock for imaginary cover, okay?”
“Yes, but Zack…”
“Yes, Gerard?”
“Can you CGI my brain into my head?”
"It worked for me, didn’t it?
They smile. High fives all around. That’s a wrap.
I hate movies with CGI and they call it art. It’s cheating in film. Cheating beauty, cheating emotions, I can go on and on. Also I’m not trying to hate on the ones who does, it’s just if you can’t film something in real life, real beauty, or for some technology ways (like for a space movie or something) don’t make the MFer.
Don’t diss on my boy Synder, he is an awesome director with great sensibilites, with more awesomeness in his little finger than the entire French New Wave had in their collective bodies.
[quote=“F.W.”]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? I have a the shirt, mawfucka. Elias Koteas for the touchdown.
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ahaha, that was awesome man.
[quote=“F.W.”]
Michael Bay: “Hi, I’m Michael Bay and I demand more AWESOME.” He literally said that in a television commercial.[/quote]
What’s wrong with more awesome? Awesome is good. More than that, it’s more than good - it’s awesome.
But I’m convinced! You’re neither a film snob nor an elitist.
Awesome is an opinion. Is it awesome for a little d*ck man to drive a sports car? No, that is what a director making a CGI movie is like. All the glory on the outside, but nothing on the inside.
[quote=“GRINDHOUSE”]
I hate movies with CGI and they call it art. It’s cheating in film. Cheating beauty, cheating emotions, I can go on and on. Also I’m not trying to hate on the ones who does, it’s just if you can’t film something in real life, real beauty, or for some technology ways (like for a space movie or something) don’t make the MFer.
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CGI can enhance reality, and make the dreams of visionary people come true. However, many directors and filmmakers who are just lazy or have bad judgment, use it in scenes or movies where it shouldn’t be used. There are tons of movies that are better due to CGI. And tons of movies that are worst because of the overuse of CGI in scenes where it wasn’t necessary or called for.
CGI doesn’t necessarily mean that is a shallow stupid movie.
Andrei Tarkovsky enhanced reality, time, scope, all that without CGI. Have you seen his stuff? Its much more visually impressive than any CGI film I’ve ever seen.
Kubrick as well, more mainstream for the people who don’t know other great directors.
yeah I’ve seen an excerpt of a Tarkovsky movie, dunno which one. It was very dream-like, some would say kitschy. I liked it. I’m definately gonna try some Tarkovsky.
1. William Wyler
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Paul Thomas Anderson
4. Quentin Tarantino
5. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
6. John Ford
7. John Huston
8. Billy Wilder
9. Robert Aldrich
10. George Cukor
Isin’t there a similar topic on this? Hmmm.
[quote=“Col. Crazy Kenneth”]
yeah I’ve seen an excerpt of a Tarkovsky movie, dunno which one. It was very dream-like, some would say kitschy. I liked it. I’m definately gonna try some Tarkovsky.
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He based a lot of his films off his own dreams and stuff. The Mirror is an example of that. The best way to ease in to Tarkovsky is see Ivan’s Childhood first. I was overwhelmed cause I saw Stalker first and I was just like “Man, this guy is too, too heavy and slow and dull”. But then I saw Ivan’s Childhood and everything sort of worked out.
Peter Jackson is the best director of all time.
[quote=“Mr.Pink”]
Peter Jackson is the best director of all time.
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I couldn’t sit through Eaten Alive. I turned off my DVD player after the first 28 minutes. I don’t like splatter horror anymore, it’s just too idiotic.
In no order.
Quentin Tarantino
Robert Rodriguez
Baz Luhrman
Martin Scorsese
Clint Eastwood
Douglas Sirk
Alfred Hitchkock
Brian DePalma
Eldar Ryazanov
Vladimir Bortko
[quote=“Mr.Pink”]
Peter Jackson is the best director of all time.
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Yeah, Meet the Feebles what pretty sweet. King Kong sucked balls though. And I have grown very tired of the LOTR movies. Haven’t watched them in ages.
1. Akira Kurosawa
2. Martin Scorsese
3. Ingmar Bergman
4. Stanley Kubrick
5. Alfred Hitchcock
6. Jim Jarmusch
7. Billy Wilder
8. Coen Bros.
9. Spike Lee
10. QT
Please don’t crucify me… 
&, before I forget.
Honorable mentions to; John Huston, Howard Hawks, Sergio Leone, John Carpenter, & Michael Mann.
^ I love most of your list. I would def. have Bergman, Kubrick, Kurosawa, QT, and maybe Hitchcock in mine as well.
I would have to do mine something later, since I am getting ino Godard but haven’t seen enough of his to say he is a fav.
[quote=“Col. Crazy Kenneth”]
Don’t diss on my boy Synder, he is an awesome director with great sensibilites, with more awesomeness in his little finger than the entire French New Wave had in their collective bodies.
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Get the fuck outta here! Because he blows stuff up real good? Or is it maybe his amazing use of CGI?
[quote=“Lt. BioBasterd”]
I couldn’t sit through Eaten Alive. I turned off my DVD player after the first 28 minutes. I don’t like splatter horror anymore, it’s just too idiotic.
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Isn’t that kind of the point of Splatter Horror?
[quote=“Ordell Rodriguez”]
Get the fuck outta here! Because he blows stuff up real good? Or is it maybe his amazing use of CGI?
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Explosions only satisfy me on a superficial level. A movie doesn’t get better, the more explosions it has (though it can help)
I just love every movie he did so far. He has the kind of sensibilites as a filmmaker that I admire. He is not afraid of ridicule due to “cheesy” scenes and cinematic elements like the use of slow motion, which are complaints by cyncial basterds with souls as black as the night. Doing a sex scene with Leonard Cohen in the background, that’s a risky movie. Lotta people hated the use of music in Watchmen. Many rolled their eyes at the beautiful soundtrack.
I was deeply moved by Watchmen. I felt for almost all the major characters, and what was happening to them and around them. It was an intense, gripping and deeply satisfying experience, all 6 times I have watched it so far. It works on all levels (emotionally, visually, story-wise, etc.) and is my 2nd fav. movie of all time.
300 was an excercise in style, mostly. you can see how much he loves the medium and what you can do with it. 300 was made of awesomeness too.
The Dawn of the Dead remake is a fantastic movie, one of the worthies remakes of all time. Great opening also. Quality.
[quote=“Col. Crazy Kenneth”]
Explosions only satisfy me on a superficial level. A movie doesn’t get better, the more explosions it has (though it can help)
I just love every movie he did so far. He has the kind of sensibilites as a filmmaker that I admire. He is not afraid of ridicule due to “cheesy” scenes and cinematic elements like the use of slow motion, which are complaints by cyncial basterds with souls as black as the night. Doing a sex scene with Leonard Cohen in the background, that’s a risky movie. Lotta people hated the use of music in Watchmen. Many rolled their eyes at the beautiful soundtrack.
I was deeply moved by Watchmen. I felt for almost all the major characters, and what was happening to them and around them. It was an intense, gripping and deeply satisfying experience, all 6 times I have watched it so far. It works on all levels (emotionally, visually, story-wise, etc.) and is my 2nd fav. movie of all time.
300 was an excercise in style, mostly. you can see how much he loves the medium and what you can do with it. 300 was made of awesomeness too.
The Dawn of the Dead remake is a fantastic movie, one of the worthies remakes of all time. Great opening also. Quality.
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God, I hate Sydner. I hate his style completely. Of course you like him and that’s fine, a lot of people do. But that doesn’t make him any good. There’s alot of people out there attending KKK meetings but that doesn’t make it right either. Personal opinion doesn’t dictate quality. You talked about the French New Wave before and there’s a reason you’re still talking about it fifty years later. Snyder might seem like hotshit right now, but with all things my friend, only time will tell. And I’ll say this. As much as I enjoyed 300 on opening day, today I can barely sit through Wenhams opening monologe.